Methodist Church

MANNINGTREE SOUTH STREET TM 1031 (east side)

9/186 Methodist Church, (formerly the Wesleyan Chapel)

GV II

Methodist Church. Circa 1807. White brick, stone dressings, plastered returns, grey slate roof. 2 storeys. Of 5 bays, the upper storeys set back. Ground floor, pilastered, parapeted and corniced end bays, each with a cetnral window with glazing bars and margins, brick surrounds. In line stone cornice to open portico, 2 fluted columns with capitals and bases resting on dwarf walls which become plinths to end bays. Step approach between the columns, 4 panelled doors to end bays. Round headed windows with glazing bars to right and left of central panelled doors, round headed fanlight with glazing bars over, right and left brick pilasters. First floor, the outer bays of 2 stepped blocks, outer with stone cornices and parapets and angle pilasters, taller inner blocks with brick cornices and parapets. Central arcade of 3 round headed windows with glazing bars, pilasters between and to right and left, cornice over frieze with centre panel reading Methodist Church, moulded pediment over surmounted by a painted cupola. Square base, sunk chamfered angles continued through moulded cornice and tall dome. Elaborate weathervane, louvres to main faces. The full height second bay to returns are plastered, upper windows with glazing bars and margins, ground floor vertically boarded door to left, blocked to right. The plastered returns of 2 storeys and 4 bays, eaves band, pilasters between windows and band below lower windows, panels between upper and lower windows. Lower windows rectangular, upper with round heads, all with glazing bars and margins.

Listing NGR: TM1070831649